Order I. ACCIPITRES. 
Family II. Falconidal 
ihe fifth Subfamily, 
MILVINiE, or Kites, 
have the Bill short, weak, with the tip hooked and acute, and the lateral margins sinuated ; the Nostrils 
^asal and lateral, with the opening mostly in the form of an oblique slit ; the Wi ngs long and pointed ; 
the Tarsi hardly longer than the hind toe, and robust ; the Toes moderate, broad, and padded 
beneath. 
Baza Hodgs * 
Bill moderate, elevated at the base, which is broad, the sides compressed, the culmen much arched, 
'd the lateral margins furnished with two small teeth near the tip ; the lower mandible also 
furnished with small teeth near the tip ; the lores clothed with small feathers ; the nostrils placed in the 
Ce 1 e ’ * n the form of an oblique slit. Wings lengthened, nearly reaching to the end of the tail, with the 
third and fourth quills the longest. Tail long and broad. Tarsi thick and very short, longer than 
the middle toe ; basal half plumed, and the other part covered with small scales. Toes thick, free at 
heir base, the inner longer than the outer; the claws small and acute. 
th These birds are found in India, its archipelago, and Australia. They are usually seen soaring high in the air, and 
'} aie supposed, at least partly, to feed on honey and on the larval of insects. 
cr . 1- B ' h Photes (Temm.) G. R. Gray, PI. col. t. 10. — Buteo 3. B. Reinwardtii (Mull.) Verb. over <le Nat. Gesch. tier Nederl. 
us Vieill .; Lophotes indicus Less.; Lepidogenys Latliami &c. No. 5. pi. 5. 
ray ; Baza syama Hodgs. 
Austr ^ SUbCriHata ( Goul< l), P. Z. S. 1837. 140., Gould’s B. of 
Avicida Swains .f 
BiU strong, With the upper mandible furnished with two teeth, and the lower mandible emarginated. 
K ings lengthened, with the fourth quill the longest. Tarsi not longer than the hind toe, the basal 
half P lu med and robust. Toes remarkably broad, the inner toe longer than the outer ; the claws strong 
and curved. 
This division is peculiar to Western Africa. 
A. cuculoides Swains. B. of Western Afr. 1. pi. 1- 
bAStr* r 75? m.. " o“ 2 
183() lecess ary to use the one next given, which is that of Mr. Hodgson (1830) as ab j 
t F I',- 1 ^ r- Go( lgson changed his name to Hyptiopns. 
stabhshed by Mr. Swainson in 1837, in his Birds of Western Africa. 
